Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#11 Post by UNCNDL1 »

Morgan, this is great news! That zero-zero dude get's thumbs up. His work a round for the break is right on. Glad it's all better again.
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#12 Post by mklym »

Ya, I was happy to get it working again. Yes, he makes it seem easy. :) Fairly simple fix, actually, or he made it seem simple. Between getting the boot problem straightened out and getting Foxtrotgps running again, the unit is back to operating normal, and I am happy. :)
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#13 Post by kode-niner »

Debian jessie, to the rescue!
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#14 Post by glitch »

Mklym,

Do you have any hints for getting the stock gps in a 29 to answer gpsd?

An USB Pharos 500 runs fine. I would like to get it set up so I dont have the

USB hanging out or if I dont have it with me.

EDIT -----------------

I found it on ttyS1. I guess I fat fingered it the first time I was searching...

Now to get foxtrot to find it...
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#15 Post by mklym »

If it is on ttyS1, then in terminal:

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sudo killall gpsd
sudo gpsd -D5 -N -n /dev/ttyS1
That should get your GPS streaming data. Now start FoxtrotGPS and it will find the data stream. Foxtrot looks for gpsd, not the hardware. HTH.
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#16 Post by glitch »

yeah that helped, it took a while but now it starts everytime.

Thanks. :)
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#17 Post by mklym »

Right on! Good that it is all sorted. You should be able to shorten the terminal to gpsd /dev/ttyS1, and killall before does not hurt.
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#18 Post by glitch »

What threw me off the trail was that Foxtrotgps was really slow to find the internal the first time.

I read another post that said it would take 15 minutes sometimes. I left it running for 20 minutes
and it did NOT find it. I could see the data stream from S1, but no love at Foxtrot. Then I shut it down
and restarted everything and then it found it. Now it finds it quick and as soon as the satillites
are pinned down I have a fix. I even took the module out and reseated it thinking maybe a contact
was corroded or loose.

Off to the library to destroy their bandwidth loading maps. ;)
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Re: Updated SolydX - no FoxTrotGPS

#19 Post by UNCNDL1 »

You can also reconfigure gpsd in Terminal and tell her where your gps device is located. Here's the Link:
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1319
To paraphrase: You would type this command in Terminal:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gpsd
Typing in that command takes you to the gpsd configuration script page. Follow the directions on the above posting, and put in your gps details that Sadlmkr discovered:
"dev/ttyS2" is the setting for the Panasonic Factory gps configured on Com 3. You enter this and tab through the script and save/exit, and then run this script:
sudo service gpsd restart
Close out Terminal and re-start your system.
Foxtrot should find your location immediately and start tracking sats. :cheers:
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